{"product_id":"fair-copy-relational-poetics-and-antebellum-american-womens-poetry-hardback-9780812253467","title":"Fair Copy; Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry (Hardback) 9780812253467","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFair Copy\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRelational Poetics and Antebellum American Women's Poetry\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJennifer Putzi (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812253467\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages, 7 bw halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Putzi'sstudy is a remarkable intervention in the study of nineteenth-century US women writers—known and unknown, recovered and yet unrecovered—because it challenges the very concept of a nineteenth-century woman writer...Putzi's model ofrelational poetics opens up compelling possibilities for the recovery of nineteenth-centurywomenwriters,aswellasnewwaysofunderstandinghow nineteenth-century US literature was read and created.\" - Elissa Zellinger (American Literary History) \"Putzi gives us an inspiring book, designed to persuade scholars of both traditional and critical literary analysis to join her in reading with respect and pleasure this body of antebellum American women's poetry...Putzi's work adds to helpful analyses of women's eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry, especially studies of poetry's contemporary rhetoric by Jane Donawerth, Winifred Bryan Horner, and Lynee Lewis Gaillet.\" (Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature) \"\u003ci\u003eFair Copy\u003c\/i\u003e expertly engages the composition, publication, and circulation of women's printed poetry to produce a far-reaching theory and methodology of relational poetics as radical recovery. Moving with graceful nimbleness between this overarching framework and a precision born of copious archival work, Putzi offers a compelling narrative of women's engagement with print and its various networks and relations—a story unknown in part because studies of nineteenth-century women's authorship have primarily focused on prose and in part because of a scholarly emphasis on originality and individuality.\" (Early American Literature) \"Jennifer Putzi offers five case studies of women poets' 'relational poetics' under conditions of authorship that depend on intersecting categories of race, class, and gender. She maps the significance of unremarkable or indistinguishable practices by unknown and in some way irrecoverable women poets in order to show that the very lack of distinction or originality, the impossibility of identifying a signature style, marks the poems as accomplishments that depend on the contexts of production, circulation, and reception.\" (Eliza Richards, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFair Copy\u003c\/i\u003e Jennifer Putzi studies the composition, publication, and circulation of American women's poetry in the antebellum United States. In opposition to a traditional scholarly emphasis on originality and individuality, or a recovery method centered on author-based interventions, Putzi proposes a theory and methodology of relational poetics: focusing on poetry written by working-class and African American women poets, she demonstrates how an emphasis on relationships between and among people and texts shaped the poems that women wrote, the avenues they took to gain access to print, and the way their poems functioned within a variety of print cultures. Yet it is their very relationality which has led to these poems and the poets who published them being written out of literary history. \u003ci\u003eFair Copy\u003c\/i\u003e models a radical reading and recovery of this work in a way that will redirect the study of nineteenth-century American women's poetry.\u003cbr\u003e Beginning with Lydia Huntley Sigourney and ending with Elizabeth Akers Allen and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Putzi argues that relational practices like imitation, community, and collaboration distinguished the poetry of antebellum American women, especially those whose access to print was mediated by class or race. To demonstrate this point, she recovers poetry by the \"factory girls\" of the \u003ci\u003eLowell Offering\u003c\/i\u003e, African American poet Sarah Forten, and domestic servant Maria James, whose volume \u003ci\u003eWales, and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1839. Putzi's work reveals a careful navigation of the path to print for each of these writers, as well as a fierce claim to poetry and all that it represented in the antebellum United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. The American Hemans: Lydia Sigourney's Relational Poetics\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. \"The Songs Which \u003ci\u003eAll\u003c\/i\u003e Can Sing\": Imitation and Working Women's Poetry in the \u003ci\u003eLowell Offering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. \"My Country\": Communal Authorship and Citizenship in Sarah Louisa Forten's \u003ci\u003eLiberator\u003c\/i\u003e Poems\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. \"What Is Poetry?\": Class, Collaboration, and the Making of \u003ci\u003eWales, and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. \"Some Queer Freak of Taste\": Relational Poetics and Literary Proprietorship in the \"Rock Me to Sleep\" Controversy\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Recovering the Unremarkable\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52559245869336,"sku":"9780812253467","price":44.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fair-copy-relational-poetics-and-antebellum-american-womens-poetry-hardback-9780812253467","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}